Media
Victor Pickard – America’s Battle for Media Democracy
On December 22, 2015, we interviewed Victor Pickard, associate professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Victor is the author most recently of America’s Battle for Media Democracy – The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform. We discussed the American media system and the parallels between…
Read MoreWhistleblowers are Essential to Democracy (September 14-15, 2015)
“If we don’t stir things up, then we get this clumpy status quo and the imposition of continued power from the top down. That’s not democracy,” said Columnist Norman Solomon speaking with WRFI’s Lori Sonken on September 14-15, 2015.
Read MoreArt for Social Activism – Kim Fraczek and Caleb Thomas – June 12th, 2015
Faith Meckley and Emma Rizzo speak with Kim Fraczek of the Sane Energy Project and Caleb Thomas of the Ithaca Public Art Commission about how they use their art work to provoke social change.
Read MoreWeek in Review with Josh Brokaw – June 4th, 2015
Aryeal Jackson speaks with Josh Brokaw of the Ithaca Times about the top stories of the week. This interview originally aired on the June 4th, 2015 edition of WRFI Community Radio News.
Read MoreConversation with Izzy Award winner David Sirota – April 22nd, 2015
Dan Apfel speaks with David Sirota, writer for the International Business Times and winner of a 2014 Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media — journalism crated outside traditional corporate structures. In the interview we discuss David’s work exposing the corruption in our country’s $3 trillion public pension system and the importance of independent…
Read MoreGenerally managing WRFI – October 31st, 2014
Samuel Whitehead speaks with WRFI’s new general manager Felix Teitelbaum about how he first got interested in community radio and how he hopes to help the station grow. This interview originally aired on the October 31st, 2014 edition of WRFI Community Radio News.
Read MoreHow a single burglary changed J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI – September 30th, 2014
Samuel Whitehead talks with former Washington Post reporter Betty Medsger about her book The Burglary, which tells the story of the theft of secret documents from an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania and how the information found in those documents changed the face of the FBI. This interview originally aired on the September 30th, 2014 edition of…
Read MoreLocal peace activist Mary Anne Grady Flores Sentencing – July 11th, 2014
Local activist Mary Anne Grady Flores was sentenced to one year in jail for for violating an order of protection requiring her to stay away from Colonel Earl Evans, a man she never met until her trial this past January. An Ithaca resident, Grady Flores was also ordered to pay $1,255 in court fines. The…
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